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638 | Corel DESIGNER X7 User Guide
• Color — fills all unmapped fills with color. To change the color, click the Color picker and choose a color on the palette.
• Unfilled — leaves unmapped fills unfilled
AutoCAD Data Interchange Format (DXF) technical notes
• The program supports AutoCAD files from version R2.5 to 2015.
• Layers are retained on import and export.
Importing an AutoCAD DXF file
• If a DXF file is too complex to import into Corel DESIGNER, you can configure your AutoCAD output device as an HP7475 plotter and
perform a plot-to-file of the drawing. Then you should be able to import this plot file using the import filter. Newer versions of AutoCAD
allow you to create EPS files.
• Corel graphics programs try to center the imported image. The image is scaled down if the coordinates are larger than the maximum
page size available in Corel DESIGNER — 150 × 150 feet.
• Model space pages are imported as master pages.
• Solid and trace entities are filled.
• Dimension lines are imported as dimension objects.
• A point is imported as an ellipse of minimum size.
• Files exported as “Entities only” may not appear as expected in the Corel program because of a lack of header information.
• Imported AutoCAD files that contain formatted paragraph text preserve text formatting such as spacing, alignment, and indents.
• Justification of text entries may not be preserved, especially if fonts are replaced in the imported files. For best results, avoid justification
of text.
• If the DXF file contains a font that is not on the user’s computer, the PANOSE font matching dialog box lets the user replace the font
with an available one.
• Lines with a number of points that exceed the maximum supported in Corel DESIGNER will be broken into multiple lines, and their fills
will be dropped.
• 3D solids are not directly supported in Corel DESIGNER. Users can import 3D solids with the 3D Import program.
Exporting an AutoCAD DXF file
• Corel DESIGNER saves drawings in a vector format accepted by computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM)
programs and devices, such as AutoCAD and certain computer-driven sign and glass cutters.
• Password protection is not available in the exported files.
• Only the outlines of objects are exported.
• Filled objects with no outlines have an outline appended to them on export.
• All text is exported by using a generic font. Text formatting is not preserved.
AutoCAD Drawing Database (DWG) technical notes
• Corel DESIGNER can import AutoCAD files from version R2.5 to 2015 and export AutoCAD files from version R2.5 to 2015.
• Password protection is not available in the exported files.
• If the DWG file contains a font that is not on your computer, the PANOSE font matching dialog box lets you replace the font with an
available one.
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
EPS files can contain text, vector graphics, and bitmaps and are intended to be included (encapsulated) in other documents. Unlike other
PostScript files, which can contain multiple pages, an EPS file is always a single page.
EPS files usually contain a preview image (header) that lets you view the file content without the help of a PostScript interpreter. An EPS file
without a preview image is displayed as a gray box in Corel applications.
You can import and export EPS files. You can import an EPS file as a group of editable objects as you would import any other PostScript (PS)
file. You can also bring the file as encapsulated, placing the preview image in the drawing window. The preview image is linked to the file. It
is recommended that you import an EPS file as encapsulated in the following situations: